Browsing: Don Wilcock

“I really respect Buddy’s depth,” Herring said. “That fire was exactly what I wanted to see happen. Sometimes it happens: his electricity, that fire.”

Something had soured Grace in the quarter century since “White Rabbit.” Maybe it was the fact that despite their early success they hadn’t saved a lot of money.

B.B. and Bobby were wound up like a cheap watch to be playing on the same stage with each other. This was the very top of the line of urban blues.

“They said, ‘Man, that’s what you should have done.’ But I thought it wasn’t good enough.”

As blues has always done, this presentation was a rallying cry for all of humanity, giving notice to a tiny but deadly enemy that we SHALL overcome.

For the first time in history, all of humanity is suffering from the same enemy. This disease is an equal opportunity destroyer.

Indeed, this album is the “shelter” from the storm that permeates so much of today’s electric blues and Americana.

In my 2004 interview with Pitney he shrugged off this seemingly uncanny ability to fit in with every kind of eccentric in the business.

“Those are personal stories to him. They’re songs he wrote about his life and his upbringing.”

In today’s episode, award-winning writer Don Wilcock gives his take on “Breaking News”